House of Curiosity...

January: GazaJanuary was tough, yet it was inspiring. I spent the whole month in the streets demonstrating for Gaza, I spent the evenings in a warehouse, packing, sorting and organizing….There was a sense of freedom in being part of all the mess. In the heart of the chaos, in the middle of the angry chants, [...]

People… people… and more people.
The hospital is full of people who have come to visit teta.  The first thing you see when you walk in the long corridor is that people have poured into the corridor out of the room.  It is almost surreal!
I always thought that we are a small family, I often joked [...]

My grandmother had a stroke on Friday morning.  My sister woke up early, and saw that there was something wrong. When she came closer, she realized that my grandmother was unconscious. We rushed her to the hospital. She has become paralyzed on the left side.
 On Thursday night, she was perfectly ok, and in a split [...]

During Gaza’s darkest moments, I discovered I have two cousins living there.  Discovering them unveiled a hidden part of my family’s history. I won’t be able to tell the story of how we lost each other, as this story is not mine to tell. I wish I could talk about our reunion story, which was [...]

I went hiking to a beautiful place called Wadi Mukhereis near the dead sea… and although it is not the first time I have been there, I still felt fascinated by the savage beauty that is hidden inside the mountains; A perfect eco system of waterfalls, rocks, insects and plants… all living in peace and [...]

I am in a part of the world, I have never been in before… Armenia!
I am on a project here, and the temptation to discover  this side of the world was simply too big for me to refuse.  The weather is great here, even though I thought it would be -9 according to Google weather…. [...]

It is always an amazing feeling when you are recognized for your work in anything, especially when unexpected.  Yes…yes…yes…we won an award…the 7iber team that is. We won an honorary award at the third annual, 2008 Jordan Web Awards in Amman … for our work last few weeks covering the Gaza events.
I am trying not [...]

One of  the project’s associates, who had been dangerously uncooperative had miraculously become dangerously cooperative… he dropped in to pay us an unseasonable visit. I was extremely busy preparing for an event…
 When he realized , he was not going to get the required social pleasantries form me, he rose to leave…  one of the [...]